Pakington was the son of Sir John Pakington, 1st Baronet and his wife Frances Ferrers, the daughter of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth. His father and grandfather died when he was very young and he became the ward of Thomas Coventry, later Lord Coventry.
He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was elected Member of Parliament for Aylesbury for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He was disabled from sitting on 20 August 1642 for executing a commission of array for Charles I. He served the King during the English Civil War but was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London.
He appeared at the muster before the Battle of Worcester, and was in consequence tried for treason, but no one would testify against him, probably because he had been captured by the Scots.
He was nevertheless fined again. After the Restoration Pakington was again a Justice of the Peace.
In 1661, he was re-elected Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. Pakington died at the age of 58.
Pakington married Dorothy Coventry, daughter of his ward Lord Coventry.
Short Parliament; Cavalier Parliament]
In April 1640, Pakington was elected Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in the Short Parliament.
